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Remorse is not something “No Bullshit” guy feels, but seated at Brooklyn’s Purity Diner on a sunny afternoon during his weeklong run at the Bell House, Heidecker is rankled by guilt. In a plain black tee and sunglasses now, he’s replaying the moment he upset a fan when he was in character the previous night. He was doing a bit where “No Bullshit”... See more
Tim’s Time
I admire how Dunham’s character, Hannah Horvath, doesn’t have the typical body we normally see on television. There is some solidity to her. We see her eat, enthusiastically. We see her fuck. We see her endure the petty humiliations so many young women have to endure. We see the life of one kind of real girl and that is important. It’s awesome that... See more
Maria Popova • Bad Feminist: Roxane Gay on the Complexities and Blind Spots of the Equality Movement
writer Asa Seresin has put it, “the commitment to misery, to being a ‘bloody difficult woman’” (notably by mocking and blocking others’ attempts at self-actualization) supports stubborn anti-trans prejudice. To reinvent one’s gender identity is, for TERFs, a form of greedy individualism that holds so-called ordinary women in contempt
Sophie Lewis • TERF Island - Lux Magazine
Nearly every time an author (usually thin) decides to put in a specific weight to indicate how HORRIBLY MASSIVE someone is, it's like
Bonkers low
No one actually knows what different weights look like, but especially thin people, and they need to stop pretending
Sarah Hollowell 🦝x.com“Is anyone shocked?” Picoult tweeted. “Would love to see the NYT rave about authors who aren’t male literary darlings.” Weiner’s addition was a variation on the idea she’d been articulating for years—“When a man writes about family and feelings, it’s literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same subjects, it’s romance, or a beach
... See moreAnne Helen Petersen • Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
And in spite of all of this, ‘fat’ has become shorthand for ‘bad’. And with the shrinking of that word, so fat people are expected to shrink themselves.